In our tradition of doing monthly service releases, today the KDE community presents the release of 4.2.3, the third update to the KDE 4.2 series and just as cool as ever. This service update brings you bugfixes, performance improvements and updated translations, but no new features in order to minimize the risk of regressions. KDE 4.2.3 is a recommended upgrade for everybody currently running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier. The details of this release can be found in the changelog.

The KDE release team will evaluate if changes in the 4.2 branch over the next months will warrant a KDE 4.2.4. The next feature release will be KDE 4.3 end of July and will most likely blow your mind. The feature freeze for KDE 4.3 has happened earlier this week and the KDE team will now stabilise this development version for another two month for you to enjoy a well-working, good looking, feature-rich and usable desktop.

Note that these statistics are made using simple grep commands, and are only a rough indication. There are actually more contributors. For example, all those commits done by the translation teams only show up as "scripty" in the change logs. For the bug numbers, I only counted lines starting with "BUG" or "CCBUG".

Actually scripty commits are just merging translators work over .desktop files, translators do commit with their own user account, just that translations are on another subtree (stable/l10n-kde4), so you are not counting them at all.

I have to really say thanks and respect to you guys for the good work that you are doing. KDE 4.2 was good enough but you continue to improve it in spite of the fact that you are working so hard on KDE 4.3. Speaking of KDE 4.3, I just can't imagine what the release will be like because it's already very functional and as solid as a rock - excellent job!